Activities of Silvia COSTA related to 2010/2309(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Organised crime in the European Union (short presentation)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women and girls represent a large proportion of the direct and indirect victims of organised crime, in particular as regards crimes against persons,
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas growing numbers of women are becoming involved in action to combat organised crime, as judicial, law- enforcement and forensics professionals and members of civil-society organisations,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas cybercriminals target and exploit women and children in particular,
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – indent 1
Paragraph 1 – indent 1
– promoting multidisciplinary training for the professionals in this field, and developing educative programmes designed for vulnerable groups, including the perspective of awarenessromotion of the culture of legality, in particular among young people,
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the development at EU level of a comprehensive legislative framework for the protection of victims, witnesses and their relatives and of effective measures for their protection, such as the European Protection Order, and measures to guard against intimidation and reprisals that guarantee total anonymity, giving especial attention to the situation of women who want to dissociate from organised crime, in particular if family members are involved;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take due account of the fact that women often directly or indirectly bear the financial and legal repercussions of loan sharking;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for the proposal for a directive on attacks against information systems and repealing Council Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA, which is currently under discussion, to be gender- mainstreamed;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to look at possible ways of providing adequate compensation for relatives of victims, in particular for children, bearing in mind that many crimes are cross-border in nature;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Member States to pool good practice on prevention and victim protection;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the role of associations of victims’ families, dialogue between such associations and the institutions and the establishment of an EU forum of associations of victims’ families;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on Eurojust and Europol to promote appropriate representation of women in decision-making posts within their organisations;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Calls on Eurojust and Europol to compile gender-mainstreamed statistics on organised crime;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5a. Emphasises the need of research on the transnational criminal trends, including from a gender perspective, by analysing also the factors that lead to involvement of girls and women in organised crime activities, such as irregular situation as regards residence rights, lack of access to the labour market, migration, escaping exploitation, family organisation pressure;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls on the Member States to cooperate with media operators and lay down rules governing conduct and respect for the dignity and privacy of victims and their families, so as to prevent them from being exposed to further victimisation and risks;